09-24-2015, 09:11 PM
[quote riverdog]Jim,
You lived the dream when you split your time between Summerland and Flaming Gorge. Why you gave that up I'll never understand.[/quote]
1. Age. Cant guide 12 months a year any more. Don't want to either. I am liking "semi_retired" life. ( like right now, chilling out on the Henry's Fork for the last week, with another few weeks left to chill out anywhere else I want in Idaho or Montana!)
2. $$ I was guiding all winter just to break even with the cost of housing, operating a boat and business, and salt water corrosion on everything. All work and no profit.
3. I wanted to see how the baby tarpon fishing was in Mexico, which I've come to find out is pretty awesome, and I'm the one getting poled around instead of doing the poling. Being on the bow of the boat is more fun than being over the stern.
I miss the Keys dearly every winter and spring, but right now, the last couple of years, I've been closer than ever to living the dream!
Now if I could afford to live in the keys and still only work 120 days a year. . .
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You lived the dream when you split your time between Summerland and Flaming Gorge. Why you gave that up I'll never understand.[/quote]
1. Age. Cant guide 12 months a year any more. Don't want to either. I am liking "semi_retired" life. ( like right now, chilling out on the Henry's Fork for the last week, with another few weeks left to chill out anywhere else I want in Idaho or Montana!)
2. $$ I was guiding all winter just to break even with the cost of housing, operating a boat and business, and salt water corrosion on everything. All work and no profit.
3. I wanted to see how the baby tarpon fishing was in Mexico, which I've come to find out is pretty awesome, and I'm the one getting poled around instead of doing the poling. Being on the bow of the boat is more fun than being over the stern.
I miss the Keys dearly every winter and spring, but right now, the last couple of years, I've been closer than ever to living the dream!
Now if I could afford to live in the keys and still only work 120 days a year. . .
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